Portrait of the Nuremberg Ecclesiastes Veit Dietrich

Portrait of the Nuremberg Ecclesiastes Veit Dietrich

Painting on limewood (Tilia sp.)

Medium

Painting on limewood (Tilia sp.)

[Klein, Report 2013]
[Löcher, Cat. Nuremberg 1997, 172]

A half-length portrait without hands against a blue background facing left. The brown eyed sitter is depicted without a hat and has cropped hair. He wears a black overcoat, a black doublet and a white shirt with a ruffled collar. The achievements of the ecclesiaste and reformer are prized in

A half-length portrait without hands against a blue background facing left. The brown eyed sitter is depicted without a hat and has cropped hair. He wears a black overcoat, a black doublet and a white shirt with a ruffled collar. The achievements of the ecclesiaste and reformer are prized in a text block at the bottom of the panel.

[Löcher, Cat. Nuremberg 1997, 172]

Attribution
Circle of Lucas Cranach the Younger

Attribution

Circle of Lucas Cranach the Younger

[Löcher, Cat. Nuremberg 1997, 172]

Production date
about 1550

Production date

about 1550

[Löcher, Cat. Nuremberg 1997, 172]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 64.5 x 49.7 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 64.5 x 49.7 cm

  • [Löcher, Cat. Nuremberg 1997, 172]

Signature / Dating

None

Inscriptions and Labels
  • below in two columns a Latin inscription in roman capitals:
    'EFFIGIEM:VITI:PICTVRA HAEC MONSTRAT INANEM / CONVENIENS NOMEN CVI THEODORVS …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

    • below in two columns a Latin inscription in roman capitals:

  • 'EFFIGIEM:VITI:PICTVRA HAEC MONSTRAT INANEM / CONVENIENS NOMEN CVI THEODORVS ERAT: / CLARA PIOS DEDIT HUIC VRBS NORICABERGA PARENTIS, / ADDIDIT INGENIO SED SVA DONA DEVS. /IPSIVS MORES CASTI ET SINE LABE FVERVNT, / ET TE IVSTIFICA CHRISTI FIDE COLVIT / SPARSIT ET IN PATRIA CONSTANTI ROBORE MENTIS / PVRA EVA(N)GELII SEMINA VOCE SVA / INGENII MONVMENTA SVI SED PLVRA LVTHERI EDIDIT; HIS NOBERVNT SECIA FVTVRA FRVI'

  • [Löcher, Cat. Nuremberg 1997, 173]

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • Reverse of the panel: - bottom left:

  • in white paint 'G. 974'; 'Gm 1[?][crossed out]'

    • bottom centre:

  • in white chalk '3/5[?]9[?]'

    • bottom right:

  • in red pen 'Bildnis d. Veit Dietrich um 1550'

    • top centre:

  • in brown ink 'No.228'; in pencil '870/32'

  • Reverse of the frame:

    • left member:

  • in red paint '[?]974'

    • bottom member:

  • in white paint 'G.M' [stencilled]

  • [Löcher, Cat. Nuremberg 1997, 173]

Owner
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
Repository
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
Location
Nuremberg
CDA ID
DE_GNMN_Gm974
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_GNMN_Gm974/

Provenance

  • 1911 acquired as a gift from Prince Johann von and zu Liechtenstein. Origin unknown
    [Löcher, Cat. Nuremberg 1997, 173]

Exhibitions

Berlin 1937, No. 153, Plate 119
Cappenberg 1951, No. 360
Nuremberg 1959, No. 140, Fig. 14, 15
Nuremberg 1983, No. 496, Fig.

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Cat. Nuremberg 1997 172-174
AuthorKurt Löcher
TitleDie Gemälde des 16. Jahrhunderts. Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg
Place of PublicationOstfildern-Ruit
Year of Publication1997
Show Literature
Exhib. Cat. Nuremberg 1979 No. 138
EditorGermanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
TitleReformation in Nürnberg. Umbruch und Bewahrung 1490-1580
SeriesSchriften des Kunstpädadogischen Zentrums im Germanischen Nationalmuseum
Volume9
Place of PublicationNuremberg
Year of Publication1979
Show Literature
Exhib. Cat. Coburg 1967 074 Fig. 9
EditorLWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Heino Maedebach
TitleMartin Luther 1517-1967. Ausstellung zur Erinnerung an die 95 Thesen Martin Luthers vom Jahre 1517
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1967
Show Literature
Exhib. Cat. Nuremberg 1959 No. 17 Fig. 3
AuthorHerwarth Röttgen
EditorGermanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
TitleAus der Frühzeit der evangelischen Kirche
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication1959
Show Literature
Exhib. Cat. Cappenberg 1951 No. 360 ?
Authorn. a.
TitleDeutsche Kultur. Das Germanische Nationalmuseum zeigt Deutsche Kultur von der Spätgotik bis zum Rokoko [Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt Dortmund, Schloß Cappenberg]
Place of PublicationDortmund
Year of Publication1951
Show Literature
Cat. Nuremberg 1936/1937 47 Fig. 381
AuthorEberhard Lutze, Eberhard Wiegand
TitleKataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums zu Nürnberg. Die Gemälde des 13.-16. Jahrhunderts
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication1937
Show Literature
  • Portrait of the Nuremberg Ecclesiastes Veit Dietrich, about 1550

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Documents

Technical studies

08.04.2013Scientific analysis

  • Identification of wood species / Dendrochronology

Support

Identification of wood species: limewood (Tilia sp.)

  • analysed by Peter Klein

09. 2010Technical examination / Scientific analysis

  • Infrared reflectography
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Underdrawing

DESCRIPTION

Tools/Materials:

- dry medium, dark chalk

Type/Ductus:

- freehand underdrawing

- delicate, fine lines

Function:

- relatively binding for the final painted version; the lines delineate contours and generally describe the essential details of the face; no representation of volume

Deviations:

- numerous alterations during the painting process to clearly define form: correction to the sitter’s proper right shoulder

INTERPRETATION

Attribution:

- Lucas Cranach the Younger ?

[

Smith, Sandner, Heydenreich, cda 2012]

  • photographed by Gunnar Heydenreich
  • photographed by Ingo Sandner

1997Technical examination / Scientific analysis

  • Identification of wood species / Dendrochronology
  • Infrared reflectography
  • Stereomicroscopy
  • detail
  • detail
  • detail
  • reverse

Support

- limewood (Tilia sp.)

- 3 boards

- widths from left: top: 15.0, 17.4, 17.3 cm, bottom: 18.0, 18.1, 13.0 cm

- 1.5 cm thick

- knots were left in the wood

- original size

Ground and Imprimatura

- before the panel was framed a ground was applied and it was painted.

- battens were employed at the top and the bottom to stabilize the panel

Underdrawing

- pen

- contours and lines within the forms

- single hairs fall over the sitter's face, over her temples

Paint Layers and Gilding

- Pentiment: the head was made narrower on the left side, the left side of the collar has been folded up

- the inscription was written without the aid of guide lines using a writing instrument, which can not clearly be identified as an ink brush

- drying cracks in the brown or black admixtures

[Bartl, Cat. Nuremberg 1997, 173]

Condition Reports

Date1997

Support:

  • the joins have been restored

  • there is a split in the centre of the panel

  • the right plank is slightly convexed

  • old wood worm damage

Reverse:

  • formerly horizontal battens were attached to the top, the centre and the bottom of the panel to reduce the warping. During this treatment 0.6cm was removed from the panel

  • central split and joins covered with an application of tow

  • the rebate at the side is later, the edges here were later covered with blue paper

Painted surface:

  • the brown and black admixtures are abraded

  • the lettering is abraded

[Bartl, Cat. Nuremberg 1997, 173]

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